New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-19
PERSONAL.

Ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania VIII make an
Grafton to-day at Valley Forge.
The Rev 9. r. Smith, author Of "My Country, TITS
of Thee has written hymn 70 be sTns a. ee
Tho remains of the sculptor Joel T. Hart which
wero brought homo from Italy two years ago. will be
finally Inferred to-day at Frankfort, Kentucky. An
address VIII be delivered on the occasion py MI
Robert Burns wilson.
Governor Bartlett of California, is steadily regain
ing health, though he is not yot able TO attend
10 business.
NJ Mcnier head Of the great chocolate mannfactur-
ing house Of France, is making tour through this
country.
There was recently sold in Paris letter written
August IT, 1919, by the Duke Of Kent in which oc-
ours this passage about bis infant daughter now
Queen of England: Her first name ia Alexandria;
Victoria by which she Is always called at home,
Is her last being that Of her dear mother The first
she bears her godfather the Emperor Of Russia
Az to her resemblance to both Of her parents, may
tell you that her mouth and her haiS which last
promises 70 Sv Sat brT Hyes and nose are nine
Yesterday sho accomplished her twelfth week ana,
IL remarkable, she u strong az child OF nve
months and already shows symptoms of teethins"
Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type-writers busy.
A statue Of Hnne us is TO DO erected In Chicago
a replica Of that In Stockholm.
The Rev Dr. Samuel Buching CHAM. Of Springfield,
Mass who last Sunday preached his fortieth ami
versary sermon, two years after bis installation
boarded In house the very spot where his church
now stands.
Tho St George Society OF Washington will mark
tho Queens Jubilee by eudowing and furnishing IN
her name ward In tho Garfield Hospital.
The presidency of Adelebert College at Cleveland.
Ohio has been offered % Professor Herbert B. Adams,
Of tho Johns Hopkins University OF Baltimore.
Several members Of the faculty of Cornell University
have been granted leave Of absence for year "
t,nIp doll
Europe. Professor Waterman T. Hewett, who Is at
tho head of tho Department Of German Language and
literature and A. N Prentlss, Professor Of Botany
sail from this port to-day. Professor Hewett VIII
devote a year " the completion Of work on "The
Political and Social Life Of Germany" at tho university
centres Of Germany Scandinavia and England, Dr
James Low Professor Of veterinary SCIENCE In the
same faculty. T Sfo svdeSent to eradicate
states. "o ''''0
The late General Charles f. de Ia Motto. Of Phila
dclphfa was descendant Of Jean Herin de la Motto,
born in Paris In the year 1870, who was Huguenot
and was compelled account OF his religious princi-
pies to ly from Franco to Switzerland Embarking
I'm a Dutch vessel. he came to America, married anu
settled at Hanover York County, Penn. Again,
when tho French and Indian Var broke out he, with
his four sons compelled b. flee for safety, losing
all his family papers and vsuablcs on the road Dur
Ing the Revolution he was visited BY his brother,
Army for the purpose, II Is supposed, of adopting
ono or moro Of his Geans) sons. This the latter no
fused, N garng his brother rather In the iSht Oh a
man Of blood and a Catholic To boot. Nicholas de Ia
Motto returned France, and all connection between
the two families was severed, a. be was never heslu
of afterwaTd.
In the district OF Krassnoi, near SmOlensk, Rus-
sia Is row living, according to tho "Novoe Vremya'
the last representative Of tho English uoblo house Of
Leslie His ancestor settled In Russia In the early
part Of tho seventeenth century, and very mpidiy
acquired immense cstates in the government OF smo-
lensk These estates have gradually passed into the
rosseasion of stranIers and the present direct rep
resentative OF the powerful Angloussian house
Of Leslie now enjoys only the barren memories
OF tho halcyon days Of his early predecessor; The
old line OF Esics In England is extinct and this kus
slan Leslie f., IL IA believed, heir TO tho Engsh uue
and to the estates, which are very considerable.
Mr. W. D. IIowells intended to go ABROAD ms sum-
mer for couple VI years that his son might stuy
{, pars but the young man has decided to go TO Har
ward Instead.